But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Matthew
GospelsEven as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Numbers
LawNeither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Leviticus
LawMoreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryFools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms
PoetryThat the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNeither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahJesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis
LawTo the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms
PoetrySo Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.